Hall of Fame Weekend: Roger Angell’s Baseball Writing

“I’d no idea in my life that I’d spend so much time writing about baseball,” muses an on-camera Roger Angell. Tomorrow, he will head to Cooperstown, New York, to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, for the words that have brought the game to readers for so many decades. Those words are now available in e-book form. To celebrate, Open Road Integrated Media produced this short video, exclusively available on newyorker.com; it’s the first in what will be a series of interviews with Angell. And, in preparation for tomorrow’s ceremonies, here are eight Angell classics from our archive: